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  1. New visions of community in contemporary American fiction
    Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison
    Author: Michael, Magali Cornier
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

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    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781587297397; 1587297396
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 246 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index
  2. New visions of community in contemporary American fiction
    Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison
    Author: Michael, Magali Cornier
    Published: ©2006
    Publisher:  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1587297396; 9781587295058; 9781587297397
    RVK Categories: HU 1819
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American fiction; American fiction / Minority authors; American fiction / Women authors; Communities; Ethnicity; Literature; Women and literature; Roman américain / 20e siècle / Histoire et critique; Écrits de femmes américains / Histoire et critique; Femmes et littérature / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle; Roman américain / Auteurs issus des minorités / Histoire et critique; Ethnicité dans la littérature; Communauté dans la littérature; Geschichte; Literatur; American fiction; American fiction; Women and literature; American fiction; Ethnicity in literature; Communities in literature; Gemeinschaft <Motiv>; Roman
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 246 pages)
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    Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235) and index

    Introduction: rethinking community for the Twent-First Century -- Choosing hope and remaking Kinship: amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club -- Negotiating collectivities: Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven -- Colelctive liberation and activism via spirituality: ana Castill's So Far from God -- The call to love, to assert power with others: Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Conclusion: looking to the future
  3. New visions of community in contemporary American fiction
    Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison
    Published: c2006
    Publisher:  University of Iowa Press, Iowa City

    Introduction: rethinking community for the Twent-First Century -- Choosing hope and remaking Kinship: amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club -- Negotiating collectivities: Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven -- Colelctive liberation and... more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    Introduction: rethinking community for the Twent-First Century -- Choosing hope and remaking Kinship: amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club -- Negotiating collectivities: Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven -- Colelctive liberation and activism via spirituality: ana Castill's So Far from God -- The call to love, to assert power with others: Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Conclusion: looking to the future. In this engaging, optimistic close reading of five late twentieth-century novels by American women, Magali Cornier Michael illuminates the ways in which their authors engage with ideas of communal activism, common commitment, and social transformation. The fictions she examines imagine coalition building as a means of moving toward new forms of nonhierarchical justice; for ethnic cultures that, as a result of racist attitudes, have not been assimilated, power with each other rather than power over each other is a collective goal. Michael argues that much contemporary American fiction by wom

     
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